The Illusion of Risk Control: What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?

• Auteur principal: Gilles Motet (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Corinne Bieder (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Springer Nature 2017
• Collection: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
• Sujets: Management of specific areas; risk management; risk assessment; high-risk organisations; safety; FonCSI; black swans; complexity in risk management
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an ev...